[samigo-team] [Building Sakai] sharing Resources on SAKAI , , , and images in Question Pool

[Robert Sedzik]

Dear Fatima,

My university has the exact same problem and I have posted on this list 
about it.

There is a Jira issue which relates to this

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1596

Cheers,
Robert




Fatima Rahiman skrev 2013-03-13 11:52:
>
> Dear All
>
> We have request from a lecturer to have documents uploaded to Course 1 
> made available to Course 2 (which has a different cohort of students).
>
> I understand the way around this is that the  file settings would then 
> have to reflect the option "|*This file is publicly viewable" *||which 
> means  all and sundry have access to this resource||*.*|
>
> In other words students  could thus  send the link to  other students 
> which would constitute a security risk if the file is meant to be used 
> in Test and Quizzes   instance.
>
> The latter aspect of security breaches refers to images..which we're 
> also  currently having a problem with as  once they're  uploaded to  a 
> question pool (where does the iamge file for the question Pool reside 
>  reside btw)or imported from a previous year courses , the new student 
> can't see these images although the instructor is able to. )
>
> My understanding was that the ability to share files  was one of the 
> nice to have options of SAKAI i.e. the ability to share resources 
> across courses etc.  ..but if it is only available  through making it 
>  public then it defeats our needed purpose of a specific group  
> needing to view /access this  resource and not everyone (and which by 
> the way is  not covered under the "|*Display this file to selected 
> groups only" *||as this pertains to groups in the /same / class) .|
>
> ||
>
> |Or have we just not enabled a particular setting...?We're running 
> SAKAI 2.8|
>
> |Any comments  will be highly  appreciated!|
>
> Ta
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